related works
Seraphic Ride : for nine instruments / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl perc pf hrp vl vla vc
Four trifles : for high voice and small orchestra, op. 33, 1948/50 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 1121 sax-a 1100 timp perc cel vibr hp str
Vier Lieder vom Gott der Bettler (voice and orchestra) : Voice and orchestra / Ignace Lilien
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
voice orch
Villonnerie : voor baryton en orkest / Hans Henkemans; tekst: François Villon
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3333 4331 timp perc 2hp pf str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans